Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08

| the sidewalk and feet in the gutter; Dr. HAD,
dock was dead when ] got there; the body mad
blanket; 1 didn't find the injury till the body
was taken home; l took money aud valnables
| and turned them over to the undertaken; 1t
was quite dark and there were lanterns about;
also q gas light at tho corner; at the home OF
was in the neck, and it seemed to be made by
= bullet, entering near the lett %clavicle, and
| the point ct exit midway between the angle OF
the jaw aud the chin. The witness
pointed out on his own person the two points.
Witness, continuing: There was no oiher
wound; next morning l examined the body
with Drs. Bergen and Savage before the cor
oner's Jury; the wound was necessarily o fatal
one; death was caused, l think, by hemorihage;
I reached the body first about 1l:3O of the
night of August 3, 1886. The cross-examina-
points as the direct examination.
Dr. A. C. Bergen's testimony was limos
identical with that of DR.. Commit.
Anton J. Lagger, Deputy Marshal of Sioux
City, tcstifies that he heard the shot as he was
coming from q session of the City Council and
says: l ran across the street; l found a man
sitting on the sidewalk, held byJack Ryan; the
man leaned forward and mouth open; the man
had q rubber coat on, buttoned around his
neck; myself and Ryan held the man up; his
feet were in tho gutter; his pulse was beating;
1 spoke TO him; he made q sort OF grunibi,ng
noise-tricd to speak, l think; a bucket of
water was brought; a horse d"ctor came ND
and sponged off the mans face; Dr.. Savage or
DR.. Bergen came up and pronounced the man
dead; 1 didn't know the man; Jerry Merrill
came up and said: 81 believe that's Mr.. Had
dock" the coat was buttoned up about the
neck: l was on Pcarl street when the shot was
fired; | had about fifty feet to go to Fourth,
and then it was just one block to the
body; / didn't stop, but ! went on
rapidly to the body; it was about 1920: l saw
the wheel which was picked up; the cane was
picked up a little east OF the center of the
crossing; l can identify the pulley.
Rev. G. G.. Turner was the next witness
called, but as his testimony is of no import
ance we do not give it.
Wesley Hitchncr. Thomas Jarvis and John
McGregor give testimony similar. McGregor's
testimony: worked at Merrill's livery stable
last August, aud was there the night of the
murder; l was there when Haddock and Tur-
ner got the rig; they got a covered buggy and
buckskin horse, and said they We're going to
Greenville; after they left l went away and
was gone q half hour; l don't remember see
ing the stable boy Hitchner after / got back;
the name of G. {. Turner was entered on the
stable book; ] was there whom the rig came
back, and helped unhitch: Haddock spoke 10
Jarvis kept on unhitching the horse, and
saw Haddock go out the second time; heard
the shot; it wasn't more than a quarter of a
minute after he left; in q minut [ went
to the door; l saw Haddock stumbling
in the street, and men running across
the vacant lot and up the street; the
vacant lot Oh the northeast corner of Water
and Fourth streets; there were men standing at
Dlneen's corner when Haddock drove in-four
or five of them there; there were none there
after the shooting when l looked; five or six
men We're running across the vacant lot and
two or three up Water street; haddock was a
little more than half way across Water street;
he staggered and fell q couple of times and fell
the last at Dineen's corner; he made q low
sort of noise; we went over to him; Ryan got
there about the same time we did; l went to
the barn and got some water; / saw Haddock's
cane, lying about the center of the crossing.
Cross-examined by Argo: Haddock didn't
speak; the noise he made was indistinct; I
didn't see the shot fred.
No witness has vet been examined who saw
the shot fired, therefore we ON t giving some
Of The Witnesses evidence, az it is not mater
tally different from the foregoing.
FOURTH DAY.
The fourth day of this celebrated case opens
with great interest and excitement. Some very
Important testimony was taken, among which
was that of an old man named Van lngham,
who now states with considerable earnestness
that the form and carriage of one Of the men
passed his window on the run after the shots
were fired and proceeding from the scene of
the murder. II was John Arens lori. This
bit of direct testimony created a tiutter of ex-
AAoA uuS PhShCu aAolCACC. Liz
cross examination of this witness was un-
usually vigorous and a contradictory line of
evidence was produced and clearly admitted
between former statements at the coroner's in
guest and the testimony before the grand jury.
Van Ingram is about sixty years of age. At
the time of the m rider he lived on the west
side of the bridge, directly across the
east side of which the shooting occurred.
Opposite his residence is a frame brewery
building, but between it and the creek is a
| n "a nf a hon trf, FDnt 49,
is used as a driveway along the side of the
building and q little back from the center of
the brewery ls an entrance of wide sliding
door-ways, which is used for receiving aud
dlscharging beer barrels. Across the bridge
from the east side ran Arensdorf and Peters.
the beer wagon driver, who is still missing
Coming west towards the brewery and when
about at the west approach Of the bridge, the
two mon as they passed within seventeen feet
OF the window out Of which Van Ingnam was
looking, turned up this driveway leading to
the double doorway, Arensd IF in the lead
and turning his head from side to side over
his shoulders as he ran. His companion
Peters. the larger of the two, came directly
after him and looking straight ahead they
passed into the side doorway. This is the
the evidence introduced so far to-day cor
roborates this witness to the two men going
across the bridge, but the testimony of Mrs.
Eberhart, wife of the proprietor of the Column
ola mousse, III front OF whose place the minis
ter was killed, does not agree with the story
OF Van lngham as to the number and speed,
She did not see them, but thinks from the
sound there must have been three men cross
the bridge, and they were walking instead of
running. ="
Another important bit of testimony was
given by John Fitzsimmons, the first Witness
called to-day. He was looking out of the Co.
1umbia House door when the shot was fred
and through the darkness saw the assassin
commit the deed, but it was too dark to recon.
n!ze him further than to state that the color Of
MS pants was light The man who fred tho
shot went toward the bridge. Fitzsimmons
described the shooting of Haddock with con-
slaeraDle dramatic force and effect and savs
when the man cam out from the corner and
met Haddock he passed the latter about a foot foot
and then turned and shot him. There was n"
scuftie; The man that fired the shot wa IkaI
toward the Columbia House. Haddock sta"
gered around quite a little bit. rnraIsd
and tell Oh his hands and knees
Witnesses examined this afternoon were
Willie Junk, son of a saloon keeper NJ whose
pace the conspirators met before proceed;no
to the scene of the killing: James ScollandS
street commissioner; r G. GRADY. civ cow
Gilman and Deputy United States Collector and
l.. +. MURPHY, United States District Attornau
ano, un1,l the case came up in court. ono ~
tne states counsel in the present case, Tha
tesumOny OF these Witnesses ralo+oa nv